ISBN:
0-8039-9605-5
,
0-8039-9606-3
,
81-7036-147-8
,
81-7036-148-6
Language:
English
Pages:
288 Seiten
Keywords:
Indien Kolonialismus
;
Tradition
;
Reform
;
Politik
;
Politische Ökonomie
;
Ethik
;
Friedfertigkeit
Abstract:
This unique book outlines and evaluates Gandhi's theory of Hindu regeneration. The author first considers Gandhi's analysis of the causes of Indian, and especially Hindu, degeneration and his efforts to determine and validate new principles of ethics. Parekh locates Gandhi in the tradition of reformist discourse developed by his nineteenth century predecessors, and highlights the way he both continued and broke with it. The volume then examines the way Gandhi went about reforming such areas of Indian life and thought as the doctrines of violence, non-violence, the practice of untouchability, mobilisation of sexual energy to attain political objectives and Indianisation of the uniquely Western autobiographical genre of writing.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction. - Hindu Responses to British Rule. - Gandhi and YugadharmaTheory of Non-Violence. - Dialogue with the Terrorists. - Sex, Energy and Politics. - Discourse on Untouchability. - Indianisation of Autobiography
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